Some people must really hate me on here!

Thanks for the plus. =) I could review what I've written as many times as I like, but unless someone tells me what I what I've done that has upset them, then I don't really have anyway of knowing what mistakes I shouldn't make again. I've actually had the same thing happen to me a few times in real life. One was at a temp job I was doing. I was supposed to be made a full employee eventually. Then they just come out and say that I was doing a terrible job and that they had nothing left for me to do and I should go home. If they had told me what I was doing wrong when it first started happening, I could've fixed it. They let it drag out for months without bothering to talk to me about it. It also happened with a group of friends. I was friends with them for nearly a year and then one day they have a sit down with me sort of like an intervention. They all told me all the things that they didn't like about me and what behaviors I did that they thought I should change. I was so shocked because no one ever said anything about it before and some of the things they brought up happened several months prior to that. I had thought these people liked me the way I was and if I had known they weren't going to accept me as I was, then I wouldn't have invested so much time into those friendships. Anyway, I've rambled enough. The point is, I have no way to really know why my star went down if it isn't a glitch.

Aww thanks for the positive rating, that's really sweet of you. =) I hope it is just a glitch.

Thanks for the plus, I hope it's just a glitch. I'm going to try not to worry about it. It's funny, I didn't realize how important my star was to me until it dropped like that.

Thanks for sharing that story and thanks so much for the positive ratings. That was really sweet of you to do that. I did contact MyLot about this earlier today and I'm waiting for an answer. At least they can tell me for sure if it was a glitch or not. Even if it was someone rating all of my discussions as negative, I didn't think it would have that big of an impact. I'm sure I read somewhere that MyLot does have measures in place to prevent people from abusing the rating system. I do agree that MyLot should make it harder for people to rate negatively. I think people should have to fill out the same form that they have to fill out when reporting a post to explain why they are rating negatively.

Well I guess MyLot isn't going to be any help at all with this. When they wrote me back, all they did was send me a link to the FAQ which I had already read before. *rolls eyes* Come to think of it, the star drop happened after I declined a certain person to be on my friends list. He sent a friends request again which I denied a second time. So if my star drops again, I'll know it's his fault.

The last time this happened to me, it was happening to everyone so it was easy to tell that it was a glitch. This time I haven't seen anyone else complain about it, so I'm starting to think it's just happening to me this time.